The State Department has yet again displayed its customary superior judgment in selecting a foreign national to participate in a military training program it supports. NOT! The counter-terror commander has now defected to ISIS.

UPDATE: We have now discovered that between 2003 and 2014 Colonel Khalimov participated in five counter-terrorism training courses in the United States and in Tajikistan.

The Most Not Reverend Al Sharpton took to Twitter to wonder whether the flooding in Texas was God’s rebuke. I was astonished to learn he claims over 400,000 followers. Aside from that, I doubt he got the response he hoped for from the Twitterverse.